Development of support system for providing knowledge from displayed documents

Because knowledge and experience, which are derived from design and analysis in product design, are not always reflected in the design process, product flaws that have previously occurred would reappear. It is necessary to develop a system that provides designers with the knowledge and design rules of a design process. We developed a useful design-information delivery system using running software/documents displayed on the PC monitor. This system extracts search keywords from a design-information database. In a validation test, a designer was warned of vibration and sliding when evaluating the strength of a product.